Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 09:17:08 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Marius Bendiksen <Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no>, Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>, hsw@email.generalresources.com, hsw@acm.org, abial@nask.pl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot/loader what to set rootdev to? Message-ID: <199811251717.JAA00911@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "25 Nov 1998 10:21:49 CST." <864srnyc82.fsf@detlev.UUCP>
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> >>>Oh yeah? How about telling us how. :-) > >> Ever heard of .pif files? Go check out how Full Throttle works, for example. > > Ummm. Rebooting into DOS is *not* the same problem as booting into > > FreeBSD, though you seem to be under the mistaken impression that it > > is. If you don't believe me, just try constructing a PIF file for > > fbsdboot.exe and launch the procedure from your desktop. You will not > > shut down gracefully to DOS and be presented with a freebsd login > > prompt a few minutes later, as you would hope and expect. The kinds > > of things you need to do in order to properly shut down Windows and > > launch the FreeBSD kernel are simply different. > > Jordan, we've been over this before. Did you ever actually *try* what > the rest of the list said? Yes, we have been over this before. Would you care to explain how you plan to reinstate the vectors that the DOS7 kernel replaces so that vm86 BIOS calls from the FreeBSD kernel will work? Please understand that there are some really fundamental issues which absolutely preclude starting FreeBSD once DOS has been started. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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